A letter from Thomas J. Schneider, who was on the board of trustees for the Institute for Genome Research, to President Clinton on January 27, 1999 after NIH and Francis Collins rejected the Memorandum of Understanding FOE created for Celera and NIH. Schneider called this rejection of the MOU "professional jealousy" and asked President Clinton to step in and help. A second letter was sent from Thomas J. Schneider to President Bill Clinton on March 28, 2000 after President Clinton held a joint statement with Tony Blair on free access to genomic information on March 13th. Thomas Schneider argued that by doing so it made the private sector look evil, meanwhile the biotechnology market dropped by at least 100 billion dollars, because President Clinton's statements created uncertainty and caused the flight of capital. To Schneider, without private money for research, everything would get done at a slower pace, and waiting to publish data until the genome was fully sequenced meant the quality of the information would be better, rather than sloppy unfinished data. Schneider encouraged President Clinton to reach out to Craig Ventor because he had quality in his work and Celera would sequence the human genome before HGP, despite what Francis Collins might say. This version of the letter also has Francis Collins' handwritten notes in the margins disagreeing with a lot of the letter. Documents also include a draft of a response from Francis Collins to Thomas Schneider, and correspondence from Francis Collins to staff over fear of the polarization of public and private efforts in genomics as portrayed in the press, and a desire for a subcommittee of their Advisory Council to provide advice on maximizing the benefits of the interface between NIH and the pharmaceutical sectors.